Intemperance
Nouns
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intemperance
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sensuality, animalism, carnality
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tragalism
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pleasure
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effeminacy, silkiness
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luxury, luxuriousness
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lap of pleasure, lap of luxury
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free living. indulgence
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high living, wild living, inabstinence, self-indulgence
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voluptuousness etc. adj.
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epicurism, epicureanism
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sybaritism
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drug habit. dissipation
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licentiousness etc. adj.
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debauchery
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crapulence. revels, revelry
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debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies
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excess, too much. Circean cup. [drugs of abuse: list] bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot [Coll.], hemp [Coll.], grass [Coll.]
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opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin
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LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide [Chem]
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phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP
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barbiturates
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amphetamines, speed [Coll.].
Verbs
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be intemperate etc. adj.
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indulge, exceed
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live well, live high, live high on the fat of the land, live it up, live high on the hog
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give a loose to indulgence etc. n.
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wallow in voluptuousness etc. n.
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plunge into dissipation. revel
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rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats
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slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst
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swill
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pamper.
Adjectives
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intemperate, inabstinent
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sensual, self-indulgent
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voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched. brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish. Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical
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bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury
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indulged, pampered
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full-fed, high-fed.
Phrases
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being full of supper and distempering being full of supper and distempering draughts" [Othello].